And so it begins... Axis - Honey Dolls - Japanese Sexbots for Men

http://www.honeydolls.jp/en/main.html

Mark my word. When this company hits the U.S. and goes public, I want to invest. I'll put me a big chunk of savings towards stocks for any company rising in the sale of sexbots. LOL Pass em' on to my kids. Big $$$ to be made here. Unfortunately it's a long time coming though.

This author from Huffington Post is not buying any of it. At the end of her article she says, "Ask practically anybody who has had amazing sex with another, and they will rarely tell you that their sex toy trumps lovemaking. I'm just not buying any of it." I am going to have to disagree with her. "Rarely" is not even close. MANY women will say that their toy gives them more pleasure because their husbands have yet to realize that they need to please their women more! But a woman needs to communicate with him more about her needs and then he must be willing to put in the effort. And this goes the same for vice versa. Anyhow, I enjoyed reading this article and got a kick out of a particular comment from grendl:


"They've actually gone one step farther with sexbots.

Now they're programmed to get headaches, and need the lights off to have sex. And some will not perform fellatio, all to make the experience all the more real for the human.

One model, the SB 131 M series weeps uncontrollably after a round of artificial lovemaking. To fix the problem you have to repeated tell them they're not fat, plus buy some extra software.

The problem with these new sexbots is they're programmed to be rather jealous, and will continually attempt to erase any porn they detect on your computer hardrive."

As for the honeydoll, check out the technical features. Note: these are more advanced that the RealDolls I have talked about before, these honeydolls have sensors.

The wave of the future.... LOL!

XOXO Pascale
www.tristatepleasure.com

More on Real Dolls - old, but very good, article

The best article on Real Dolls yet. It's old though... 2004.


http://www.hossli.com/articles/2004/01/01/real-dolls/

Real Dolls

Hossli.com, 1. January 2004

Leah is a real doll - medium-sized rounded breasts, pretty face and lips with a permanent pout. She's 100 % silicon, the best selling model from California's Abyss Creations, whose detailed, $6500 plastic girls are definitely the top end of the sex toy market.

By Peter Hossli (text) and Robert Huber (photos)

Leah fits the average male’s criteria. Pretty face, but not too pretty, her breasts are round and firm, but not huge. Her legs are long and her hair is mid-length. She never nags and always smiles. Men like average women even when they’re recreated.

Leah looks like a woman, has the same weight as a woman, the same body orifices, and one day soon she’ll even be able to speak and moan controlled by computer. Leah is a sex doll and a bestseller, a Realdoll. Supposedly she’s like a real woman, almost completely cast from a secret mixture of Japanese silicone that looks and feels like flesh.

The now 37-year old artist Matt McMullen created her in 1996 when he grew tired of making scary Halloween masks. He switched to the “female form” “because as a kid I always liked it so much.” McMullen is a young, cool guy with two rings in his left ear and a t-shirt with a Japanese dragon. He founded the firm Abyss Creations in 1997 and as he puts it, “a sexual revolution” broke out.

San Marcos, an hour’s drive north of the Californian beach town San Diego is one of the many nondescript towns in southern California. Shopping strip centres, warehouses, snackbars, concrete, palms and the Pacific Ocean. The windowless Abyss production factory stands a stone’s throw away from Highway 5 connecting Los Angeles and San Diego. There’s no company sign. Nothing on the outside reveals the sex dolls being manufactured by craftsmen behind the grey-brown walls.

Daily, a Leah, Kim, Tami, Stephanie, Nika or Stacy is produced here. These are the six names of the most popular dolls by McMullen. The standard model costs USD $6,499. At the reception Shelly Couture awaits us, a Canadian woman with Irish roots. Her red hair is unkempt and she’s wearing a headset with a built-in microphone. The spokesperson for the company also advises clients on the phone and monitors the bubbling silicone brew. “Call me Shelly”, says Couture with Californian ease. She guides us through the white waiting room where six clothed dolls are displayed, straight in to the production hall. The factory resembles an artist’s studio. The walls are wallpapered with Japanese Manga comics. It smells of paint and crude oil.

Director McMullen creates the designs, his wife Kimberly, an accountant, keeps the books. Seven employees make the dolls. One person makes the frame out of metal and vinyl. Sculptors cast three different moulds out of hard plastic, one for the body, a second for the breasts and a third for the head. Liquid silicone is poured into the moulds. Painters paint the skin, lips, and fingernails and set the eyes in. Neatly laid out are a half dozen hairless heads resting on a frame. Wigs made in China are stored in paper boxes with see-through lids. Every finished doll is dried, dressed and packed in a wooden crate lined with Styrofoam. Padded belts stabilise the head, upper and lower bodies for transport.

Before the containers are shipped by airfreight, Shelly sticks a few plastic flowers in the artificial hair of the expensive cargo. “That pleases the customer”, she says and closes the box stamped “Fragile – This Way Up”.

Realdoll creator Matt McMullen went to art school and later worked as a sculptor. As an artist he remained unnoticed, until he created a realistic looking mini woman. She was two feet tall - and naked. He placed a photo of her on the Internet and it sparked an interest. McMullen received hundreds of e-mails asking if his doll works. “At first I didn’t understand what they meant by work”, he says. McMullen caught on quickly. “A few days later I founded a company. Without even wanting to, I landed in the sex industry.”

The next sight is horrifying. Nine naked dolls are dangling from iron chains. Plastic poles are wedged in the hollows of their knees spreading their legs apart. One doll is missing her hands and feet and none have pubic hair. Ma, the Chinese painter will stick it on according to the order forms today. These dangling, headless bodies generate an even stronger feeling of revulsion than the finished, lifeless dolls. The artificial bodies look as though they can feel pain.

Is the always-available sex doll, another woman-despising evil spawn for male dominance over the female body? “I don’t have a problem with it”, says spokesperson Shelly. “The Realdoll is very honest. It’s about pure sex. If that’s what somebody wants, that’s fine. Better than pretending to have an interest but really only wanting sex.” Repressed America can finally live out whatever it lusts after.

The Realdoll doesn’t smell like a woman or perfume, she smells like unrefined oil. The smooth, flawless surface doesn’t feel at all like skin. More like sticky slime, that green toy goo that kids love to ooze through their fingers on the playground. With plenty of baby powder and regular use the sticky skin becomes supple, promises Shelly.

Every doll is put together according to the customer’s wishes. The dolls come in 16 different faces and ten body types. The customer determines the breast size, skin colour, body and hair length. Also, men can choose the type of hairstyle, eye colour and shape, make-up and the type of pubic hair – curly, shaved or trimmed. Every doll has three washable orifices.

The doll has its limitations. It works best in the missionary position. The instructions advise against too wild behaviour: “The Realdoll must be handled as carefully as a real woman.” Regular cleaning is recommended, preferably in the shower or bathtub. It comes with a minor repair kit containing extra silicone, a sponge and glue to fix tears and scratches. A doll will last at least ten years according to salesperson Couture, although when we were preparing for a photo the photographer broke Stacy’s neck.

If you choose a Realdoll you need to be strong. The dolls weigh between 55 and 75 kilos. German customers especially, have a preference for the larger models, weighing over 75 kilos. Realdolls have an air of necrophilia sex about them, more so than the inflatable companion of the past. Shelly describes their customer as a “gentleman with a high income who can afford the most expensive masturbation aid in the world.” Art collectors, lonesome men, rubber fetishists and the contact-shy all call and order. Couples dreaming of a saucy threesome put in orders – without worrying about health risks or threatening jealousy. Increasingly, design and art magazines are showing interest. The Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam had two dolls on display in 1999.

Those who are interested can come and have a look at the different models in the factory. On this Friday two Japanese men have come by. Both are wearing designer shorts and blue baseball hats. On their wrists are Swiss watches. Shelly leads them in to the showroom. There they examine Leah, Kim and Stacy. They squeeze breasts, look inside mouths, feel the labia and choose wigs. Within 30 minutes they’ve decided to purchase three dolls, each the price of a used car. “We’re really delighted about it”, is all they say.

Abyss Creations guarantees discretion. Names and addresses are only noted after the order and down payment have been placed. The shipment is sent in a plain wooden box. Two weeks before delivery the recipient is informed according to his wish, either by mail or telephone. The payment is done discreetly by cheque. “If a person lives in a small town they write ‘engagement present’ on the cheque”, says Shelly. During shipment these objects of desire wear skimpy little nylon dresses and always a bra.

Matt McMullen says he has no idea why the demand is so great. He developed his Realdoll supposedly with the intention of only “selling a few dozen and then doing something else.” Since then he’s made hundreds. It takes 18 weeks from the day an order is placed until delivery at home. “We could produce them faster and sell more,” says McMullen,” but the quality of the dolls would suffer. We guarantee top quality products

“I just received my Realdoll. I gave her a name the day she arrived. She’s called Regina. I have to say, she’s my dream woman. The girl I never got in middle school or later on”; thanks from a customer per anonymous e-mail for the prompt delivery. “I’m from Wisconsin. It’s cold here and the ratio between men and women is bad. Regina gives me the best sex, I’ve ever had (better than with any real woman). I don’t need to worry about diseases or an unwanted pregnancy, which makes sex much better. This is a message for all you guys out there: If you’re sexually frustrated, lonely, depressed or if you’ve had enough of the bar scene, believe me a Realdoll is worth it. I am happier today than I’ve ever been.”

Another customer, Shelly says, wrote: “You have to urgently add a warning that says that ‘The orgasm is so intense, that you can faint.” And the big-mouthed radio and TV talk show host Howard Stern says: “Oral sex with the Realdoll was better than with a real woman.”

Business is booming - totally without advertising. Abyss has not placed one advertisement, either in a newspaper or glossy magazine. The 10,000 Internet surfers that visit the website every day are enough, plus press releases and word of mouth. “When people hear about our dolls, they tell others”, McMullen believes. He estimates the turnover potential is about a thousand dolls per year. Success makes McMullen cautious. He despises the stock market. “Artistic freedom is more important to me then money. I don’t want to be accountable to anyone.” He fears doll robbery. That’s why he refuses to patent the dolls. “I don’t want anyone to steal the blueprints from the patent office”, he says.

One problem is the flourishing discount business. “Many can’t afford a new silicone doll”, says Shelly. “Our customers want a change, so they also trade dolls amongst themselves.” On different websites it’s possible to acquire discontinued models. It’s a “huge underground movement that we have no control over”.

Internationally the interest is growing rapidly. Fifty percent of the orders still come from the USA, but rubber loving Germans and Japanese are catching up quickly.

McMullen’s goal is the substitute wife. “I’m not God, but my dolls should resemble a human being as much is possible”, he says. “The more realistic, the better.” He’s already in negotiations with software companies in Silicon Valley. They should animate his silicon dolls with fast silicon chips. An external highly sophisticated computer will teach Leah and Kim to speak. In the future, the vagina, mouth and anus will have chips installed that will unleash movement when they are penetrated. “Of course the dolls will moan”, he says. Also, movement in their blank, staring faces is of great importance to him. “Just a small movement in their cheeks – and the customer would believe their Realdoll is real”, says McMullen.

In e-mails people request that their dolls cook, iron and clean. Robots can do all that. However, “Why shouldn’t robots be sexy?” asks McMullen. Also, of great interest are customized dolls, so-called she-males – a woman’s body with a penis in the crotch. These sell brilliantly. Now there’s also a male Realdoll available, named Charlie. He sells for a bit more at USD $6,999. “Mostly gays were asking when the artificial male would be available on the market”, says Shelly. But also many women who:”just want pure sex without all the arduous trappings that go with it.”

Interesting, Strange and Scary - Robot Marriage

Marriage, sex with robots soon
14 Oct 2007, 0018 hrs IST

Humans could marry robots within the century. And consummate those vows, according to an artificial intelligence researcher.

“My forecast is that around 2050, the state of Massachusetts will be the first jurisdiction to legalise marriages with robots,” David Levy at the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands told LiveScience. Levy recently completed his PhD work on the subject of human-robot relationships.

The idea of romance between humanity and our artistic and/or mechanical creations dates back to ancient times, with the Greek myth of the sculptor Pygmalion falling in love with the ivory statue he made named Galatea, to which the goddess Venus eventually granted life. This notion persists in modern times. Not only has science fiction explored this idea, but 40 years ago, scientists noticed that students at times became unusually attracted to ELIZA, a computer program designed to ask questions and mimic a psychotherapist.

“There’s a trend of robots becoming more human-like in appearance and coming more in contact with humans,” Levy said. “At first robots were used impersonally, in factories where they helped build automobiles, for instance. Then they were used in offices to deliver mail, or to show visitors around museums, or in homes as vacuum cleaners, such as with the Roomba. Now you have robot toys, like Sony’s Aibo robot dog, or Tickle Me Elmos, or digital pets like Tamagotchis.”

In his thesis, Intimate Relationships with Artificial Partners, Levy conjectures that robots will become so human-like in appearance, function and personality that many people will fall in love with them, have sex with them and even marry them. “It may sound a little weird, but it isn’t,” Levy said. “Love and sex with robots are inevitable.”

Levy argues that psychologists have identified roughly a dozen basic reasons why people fall in love, “and almost all of them could apply to human-robot relationships. For instance, one thing that prompts people to fall in love are similarities in personality and knowledge, and all of this is programmable. Another reason people are more likely to fall in love is if they know the other person likes them, and that’s programmable too.”

In 2006, Henrik Christensen, founder of the European Robotics Research Network, predicted that people will be having sex with robots within five years, and Levy thinks that’s quite likely. There are companies that already sell realistic sex dolls, “and it’s just a matter of adding some electronics to them to add some vibration,” he said, or endowing the robots with a few audio responses. As software becomes more advanced and the relationship between humans and robots becomes more personal, marriage could result. “The question is not if this will happen, but when,” Levy said. “I am convinced the answer is much earlier than you think.”

The possibility of sex with robots could prove a mixed bag for humanity. For instance, robot sex could provide an outlet for criminal sexual urges. “If you have paedophiles and you let them use a robotic child, will that reduce the incidence of them abusing real children, or will it increase it?” roboticist Ronald Arkin at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta asked. “I don’t think anyone has the answers for that yet-that’s where future research needs to be done.”

Arkin noted that “if we allow robots to become a part of everyday life and bond with them, we’ll have to ask questions about what’s going to happen to our social fabric. How will they change humanity and civilisation? I don’t have any answers, but I think it’s something we need to study. There’s a real potential for intimacy here, where humans become psychologically and emotionally attached to these devices in ways we wouldn’t to a vibrator.”

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What an interesting article!! It's not hard to believe, but hard to believe it could come so soon. My youngest daughter was born in 2005. She'd be 45 in 2050. Her prime!! Ahhhh! No seriously, this is what "I, Robot", "A.I." and "Robots" is all about! "Robots" was probably made to adjust the children to the future. You know, I wouldn't mind a Robot (OMG, I'm capitalizing it) to clean my home and cook me dinner. But the logical side of me is fearful of robots. They have already taken many away many human jobs. I DO consider Metrocard and ATM machines robots. And to imagine robots taking over the planet and eliminating the human race. VERY possible!

Back to the point though... Robot SEX. Or even stranger, Robot Marriage. So, do you go on a Honeymoon together? Do you hold a funeral should the robot crash and become unfunctionable? How much would it cost to upgrade your husband? Would your robot-husband's fingers be cold? Ehhhhh...I'll stop here.

Question: Will these robots still be banned in Alabama??